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The Top Of The List

May 24, 2007

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5:19 pm

Daniel Larison

Continued warfare makes John Boehner teary-eyed, but not for the reasons you might think.  Was the remark about his oath to defend the Constitution an indirect confession that he had failed to keep his oath?  It’s moments such as this one that remind me that I literally do not understand what makes Republican politicians tick.  Today’s GOP man is a strange mix of sentimentality and machismo; he has the heart of a compassionate jingo.  Weird.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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